Yeah I want to pay them off as fast as I can, however I owe a lot of money and the current payment the goverment wants me to make is not anywhere near possible.  Still have yet to find a job which doesn't help.

From your list I would definately be playing Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good and Evil, Ninja Gaiden and I personally loved Otogi.  I am sure I am in the minority but Final Fantasy X just didn't do anything for me, felt more like watching a movie than playing a game.

Well, I finally graduated college... took me many many years going off and on, failing at times and passing with flying colors...long story that I need not get into I suppose.. anyways the college loans really racked up and have been getting offers for federal loan consolodation which is promising an interest rate nearly 2 full points lower.  Does anyone have any experience with this, is it reliable?

My biggest problem in finding good desktops is that I run at 1600x1200 and 9 times out of ten the background isn't offered in that size.  BTW I love the mythbusters desktop!

Well, just finished the game.  Took me 32 hours.  All in all a decent game, but man some of the bugs drove me nuts.  I ended up missing out on 9 movies when I went in after finishing the game, so obviously I missed some things.  I was however incredibly dissapointed in the end, it just seemed to be really lacking to me.

It all depends on where you head once you are able to choose your next destination.  I got lucky with where I chose to go and got my lightsaber there by the time I was lvl 13ish.  As far as I know it is impossible to get all the parts on telos.  I believe there is only the one part there.

I am also in the crowd of not buying HL2 due to Steam.

Personally I would love it if they fixed the Ironforge lag, and made it so I didn't crash anytime I try to browse the AH.  It isn't so much a crash as it is I lag out for roughly 10 minutes and then I alt-tab out to find that WoW.exe is using roughly 880mb of ram.

And... through all of this there has been no ETA at all... shades of EQ with a scrolling banner saying it would be up ASAP, but there was no ETA yet.

Well a "blue" posted that servers were back up, of course when you try to log in there is a new message that they are aware that players can't login, which is what the message said 4 hours ago now... guess it is gonna be no WoW tonight then.

Tried thottbot but am getting an error every time I try to login, most likely due to using Opera.

Well, the patch must have broken something big time...servers been down now for over 2 hours.

I would love to try this UI out.. however for the past week I have been unable to actually connect to the site.  Is the program available anywhere else?

Ok, what the hell is up with this... 7 hours now Earthen Ring has been down for a 4 hour maintenance/patch....The message is even gone about downtime that pops up on the left side, yet earthen ring isn't there... bleh this really sucks.  I have basically lost all of my playtime today because of this.

found this video clip after following a livejournal link... quite funny...

http://www.kroq.com/kevinandbean/BjorkFight.mpg

http://www.y2khai.com/images/khaiepisode.swf

Anyone else play on Earthen Ring?  Sigh.... 6 hours and counting... it is still not up, seems to be on of the only ones not back up yet.

Would love to get in and try out the patch, but sigh no go as my server still isn't back up.  Been down 5 hours and counting now.

lol... sorry bout that... was supposed to say 2 hunters... petting the dog and typing with my offhand doesn't work too well.

Actually with a hunter, there should be no such thing as a fleeing mob between wing clip and concussive shot.  The pet is only as good as the person controlling it tho when it comes to a pet bringing adds.  We have a sting shot that greatly reduces strength and agility which can make a big difference to melee damage taken.

In the end, sure if you absolutely must have the most efficient group, then by all means pass up inviting the hunter... as far as I am concerned I wouldn't want to be invited to such an elitist attitude group.  If the group can succeed who cares on the classes.  Heck I had a group at lvl 24 do deadmines to kill vancleef... guess what the group was 2 hunters, one warlock, a priest and a druid, and we did just fine.  By no means an optimal group... but we did it, not a single death and were done before some people who were lfg when we formed (insisting on this ideal group make up) ever even got a group.

From my experience I can tame up to my level - 1.  So lvl 31 to tame a lvl 30.  That said when taming a lvl 25 bear today, I died twice simply because I failed my taming attempt and was at about 20% health when it failed with no chance of running far enough to get away (was out of potions unfortunately).  I know there are lvl 25ish turtles in Blackfathom which are elites, so even tougher to tame and live heh.  But I can never find a group to go in there.

Guess I will just have to wait a few more levels to try a turtle.

Is also frustrating that for example owls... not all to common, but highest lvl owl I know of is lvl 9, until almost lvl 50.

I am on an RP server and it is not open PvP.  You have to set your flag to kill another player who also must be flagged.

Well I am up to lvl 26 now.  Loving the class and have done a good bit of grouping.  What I bring to the group is a secondary tank in my pet (great for holding an add at bay), and very good damage.  Other than that, no hunters add very little to a group.  Of course all of my groups have been pickup groups that were no where near optimal, so we did what we had to do to get by.

To the hunters out there...what pets are you using?  I have read all the faqs etc on the main forums, but am looking to hear from expierience what everyone likes.  My favorite pet so far is a bear... have tried many others and just don't feel like they are as effective.  However I would love to be different from the million and one hunters out there.  I tried a turtle, however at 26 the only turtles I could find to tame were lvl 15 in The Barrens.  I know there are supposed to be some in Blackfathom but would need a group to get in there and tame one.  I just couldn't handle trying to level up the turtle from so low when it couldn't do jack squat against anything that gave me xp.  I looked into a wind serpent, but it seemed to be overall a poor pet... is considered DPS High, but with a delay of 2.0 is very slow attacking, and was much less effective than an equal level cat.  I see a ton of cats, bears, raptors and crocs so would like to avoid them.  Has anyone tried out a wolf?  Was thinking of snagging one out in Ashenvale to try out.  Sometimes I wish I had about 6 stable slots.

Well I am up to lvl 22 now.  As far as aggro, my pet quite often losses aggro to my range attack.  90% of the time I am finishing the last 15% or so of mob health in melee.  My pets have growl 3, bite 2, claw 3.  So far I can only do mobs above my lvl if they are one at a time.  If I get two (+3 lvl) mobs my healing of my pet ends up with both mobs on me and I drop fast.

Well, I got frustrated with some CS issues and major bugs with EQ2 and have caved into the darkside.  I have a hunter who is now lvl 19.  My best solo moment so far was taking on a lvl 21 elite mob and winning to finish off a quest.  I am very impressed with the hunter so far... I am going heavily into beast mastery talents, so far I have increased my pets HP by 10% and thier focus by 20%.  Next I intend on upping thier damage.  It may not be the most effective build but I am loving it.

Luxury Taxes will not work when you have one or two owners who are willing to say F' the tax and carry a payroll of 60 mill.  They will gladly pay the tax to monopolize the best players.  To me, if the NHLPA is willing to set the tax to begin at say 45 million, then that means they recognize there is a level at which salaries are too high... so why not make the cap at 45 million... the only reason they won't is because they know the tax system does nothing to truly curb salaries.

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge3/index.html

First half of 2005 Geneforge 3 will be out... I can't wait, loved the first and second one.

Very very good episode I thought... when sawyer left sayid, what was his comment about the tide?  There seems to be some odd twist in that sawyer made special note of the fact he kept that signal fire going.  Hurley was some sort of warrior... umm in what heh...My wife started crying when she saw charlie hanging there...I had faith he would be revived by jack, although I think Jack is more concerned with saving claire after seeing the flashback where he finds out the woman who died was pregnant.

Ok, I guess I am a wuss lol... the hotel is freaking me out.  So far I am loving this game.  Answering the questions gave me gangrel... man I wish I could change how I look, at least let me go bald or something, the dreadlocks just ain't me heh.

The interfaces in EQ2 can be rewritten just like WoWs.  Personally it is the style of graphics in WoW that annoy me, not the quality.  They are very high quality graphics, they just don't appeal to me.

WoW, absolutely abhor it.  Doom 3 - pretty graphics that you never get to see and scripted all to hell to induce scariness.  HL2 just had no chance of living up to the hype, and even without the hype I was dissapointed.

To those playing, are you on the freeport or qeynos side of things?  I am in freeport as a troll assassin, and loving every moment of it, however just recently I took a trip to the hippy fest we all know as qeynos.  My goodness every other wood elf was jumping around looking for a tree to hug, and boy where NPC's overly nice... nice to the point of make me gag.  To those from qeynos, how can you possibly stand living there?  I felt like I was going to die being surrounded by such bright colors and effevesing bubbly joy.

While it can be frustrating to some, for me I prefer to not have my hand held and told every step of the way where to go for a quest.  Personally if you are having a problem, then go to a spoiler site if you want it spoon fed.  That is why spoiler sites exist.  I think there is a good balance to the quests.

I am in freeport, but it should hold true... Antonica should take you from lvl 10 to lvl 20.  As far as quests go, not able to say since I am Evil!  Just talk to anyone and everyone you come across... also as you get out into antonica and so on, more and more quests come from dropped items or examining items in the world.

Rage, while you may think WoW is fun, I do not.  Does that make me wrong, or you wrong... no it means we have different tastes.  We need to accept both have thier audience, and for that audience each is a great game that is fun to play.

Ender, while I understand your point, what you define as FUN and what I define as FUN are invariably two different things.  I played WoW for about a month, and by the end of the month I just was not having FUN at all.  I found combat to be very shallow just as L.E. did.  After getting into EQ2 in some depth I am having a lot of FUN.  I find the classes to be very enjoyable, I am almost lvl 20 and am really getting into some awesome abilities.  Groups are really starting to learn tactics and strategy.

Ultimately we will most likely never agree due to our difference in how we define what is FUN.

Part of the problem I hear people say that classes are too generic.  Sure lvl 1-10 very generic, lvl 11-19 less generic, lvl 20+ much less generic.  They are letting people learn the game and abilities at a much more manageable pace instead of throwing very specialized roles at you from the get go.  I personally love the way the class system works.  At lvl 20 as an assassin I am very different from the other scouts.  I have many different utilities that I am bringing to a party over a brigand or a dirge etc... While from the begining you have all your main skills in WoW it leaves little room to grow other than a new version of the same spell.  EQ 2, the spells you gain 11-19 will be quite different from 1-10 and 20+ again very different from before lvl 20.

I like the sense of community that has been fostered by only having 2 main cities/hubs.  You are interacting with a much larger population from day one and you get to know a lot of people.

I am curious Cici how long you played EQ2, what level did you get up to?

Edit to add:  Crafting, yes it can be a full time job, but this is what many many crafters were asking for.  Many crafters want to be able to do nothing but craft and be very successful at it.  Personally I have been keeping my crafting lvl and adventure lvl close to each other and am always able to make items that are of use to me.

That language is all subjective.. I have seen equally as many sites that use 13.1-13.9 to represent the number of bubbles in.  Saying 13.5 means you are 50% of the way through 13.

Antonia Bayle is hurting for healers at least on the freeport side.  I don't know distribution but I would say there are a ton of summoners and crusaders, quite a few scouts and then the poor healers heh.